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rrldar. March 18, 1958
Law Against Juvenile Smoking Creates Problem at State Training Schools
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Superintendents
Favor Repeal of
Criminal Status
Salem (U.R) Juvenile
authorities are agreed that an
Oregon law which makes a
minor who smokes cigarettes a
criminal creates a disciplinary
and rehabilitation problem at
both the girls' and the boys'
training schools.
And Father H. B. Laner Jr.,
Albany Episcopal minister and
chaplain at Hillcrest school for
girls here, goes a step further.
He says the legal ban creates a
much more serious moral prob
lem lying and stealing, which
are expressly forbidden in the
10 commandments.
Favors Repeal
The superintendents of both
boys and girls training schools
spoke in favor of a measure in
troduced by Sen. Stewart Hardy
(R-Condon) which would repeal
a law making a juvenile who
smokes a criminal. He made it
clear yesterday before the Sen
ate Judicial Committee headed
by Sen. Warren Gill (R-Leb-anon)
that his bill does not re
peal the statutes which prevent
the selling of tobacco to minors
without written consent of the
parent or guardian.
Not Enforceable
Sen. Hardy pointed to the law,
which says any minor under 18
who smokes a cigarette in public
place shall be fined $1 to S10
or imprisoned up to two days.
He said the prevalence of smok
ing among teenagers in all parts
of Oregon show the law is not
enforceable.
James Lamb, superintendent
of MacLaren school for boys at
Woodburn, said the ban against
smoking, mandatory for the in
stitution under the law, creates
the biggest problem his staff
faces.
Narcotics No Problem
Drinking and use of narcotics
present little or no problems.
But most of the boys have be
come used to smoking before
they get to MacLaren school. A
boy driving up with a sheriff's
deputy, may be smoking in the
car. But the minute he gets to
the school he is cut off. The re
sult is constant attempts to
smuggle in cigarettes, both by
the boys coming back from off
campus chores, and by their par
ents visiting them.
Miss Marjorie McBride, sup
erintendent for Hillcrest, said
her staff faces precisely the
same problem. She said most of
the girls over the age of 12 have
smoked before they got to Hill
crest. Both superintendents fav
ored supervised smoking so
they could confine it to safe
areas.
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House Members Vote To Go Along
With Plans for Saturday Work
Salem (U.R) Members of the
Oregon Heuse voted yesterday
to go - along with speaker Ed
Geary's recommendation for
Saturday sessions at 9 a.m.
Geary encountered opposition
from several members who con
tended they should have Satur
days to attend to their private
affairs and from those who
doubted much work would be
accomplished on Satur days.
Geary said Saturday sessions
would force members to remain
in Salem Friday afternoon for
committee meetings.
The Senate decided earlier on
Saturday sessions.
Leavenworth Penitentiary
Has Few Jitters Over Riots
Leavenworth, Kan. (U.R)
There are a few riot jitters in
the federal penitentiary here al
though more than 2,500 of the
second-toughest convicts in the
country (incorrigibles are sent
to Alcatraz) are walled in on a
little patch of Kansas plains.
Most of the inmates are ap
proaching middle age. The aver
age age is 35, nearly 10 years
higher than the average in the
nation's prisons.
Warden C. H. Looney, the
man in charge of one of the fed
eral government's two No. 2
"big houses"- the other is in
Atlanta, Ga. said that flareups
elsewhere generally are sparked
by hot-headed youngsters. But
he added that the big reason
there has been no attempted
break or riot scare here in more
than 10 years is the prisoners'
eternal effort' to accumulate
"good time," or days subtracted
from a maximun term for good
behavior.
Paroles are the exception at
Leavenworth. Looney said, and
even the long-termers shun any
form of trouble as a threat to
their carefully hoarded "good"
time.
Yet 60 per cent of the men
discharged from here return.
Looney, a soft-spoken, cheerful,
part-time farmer, worries about
that rate. He blames the re
habilitation program, in whose
successes he. otherwise takes
pride, for shortcomings some
where. He holds backgrounds partial
ly responsible. Files in the place
ment office, he said, show that
many of the inmates never held
a job. The records are a mono
tonous pattern of early truancy.
correctional schools, minor
thefts and major crimes and
prison. Many of the men here
have spent most of their lives
behind bars, he pointed out.
Lifetime patterns like that
are hard to break, and a man
who serves his time here docile
ly, as most do, still finds it hard
not to fall back into the old life
outside.
Looney is much like a small
town mayor. He knows his com
munity well. He says "Hello
boys" on his way through the
doublegated corridors and quiet
ly keeps an eye on potential
troublemakers.
A former rural school teacher
in Missouri, Looney has ended
nearly every day of his 22 years
on the staff with a tour of the
prison farms. His own farm is
at nearby Atchison and his
home is on the grounds here.
The warden seldom uses the
grapevine method to check a
trouble pulse and is proud of the
federal standards for guards. He
is a respecter of the prison code
against "copping" (informing on
fellow inmates) and demands
testimony about what goes on
in the cell blocks only when
grand jury action is involved.
The only investigations held in
years here involved fights
among prisoners.
Only six guards are armed.
They watch the yards from
towers. Talk among convicts is
restricted to allotted times and
industrial shops are designed
both to keep the men busy and
prison chatter to a minimum.
Only 212 inmates, including
lifers, are serving terms of 25
years or' more. Some of the
underworld's biggest names have
chalked off days into old age
here. Machine Gun Kelly died
inside. Harvey Bailey, another
notorious kidnapper of the 1930s
still is here, approaching 70.
The "big name" convicts, Loo
ney added, keep pretty much to
themselves. They dodge those
who seek to associate with the
famous.
The House, in informal cau
cus, also agreed to convene each
morning at 9:30 instead of 10
and to move morning commit
tee meetings to 8 o'clock instead
of 8:30.
Loyalty Oath
The House yesterday approv
ed a bill providing a loyalty oath
for persons to be employed or
associated with civil defense
agencies. The bill was previous
ly sent back to committee be
cause of strong objections by
Rep. Alfred Corbett (D-Portland)
that it infringed on civil rights.
As amended and brought
back yesterday, the objection
able features were eliminated to
the satisfaction of most mem
bers except Rep. Harvey De
Armond (R-Bend). He said he ob
jected to penalizing persons who
had recanted earlier associations
with Communist organizations
and had become reliable citi
zens. The loyalty oath approved
yesterday requires civil defense
workers to affim that they nev
er belonged to a party or organ
ization "they knew" advocated
the violent ovethrow of the gov
ernment.
Tax Bill Monday
Also passed was a bill grant
ing uniform exemptions
throughout the state for prop
erty taxes assessed against war
veterans and their widows.
On today's calendar were 11
bills including one to remove
the state from the flax and linen
business. The bill 1 restrict
fishing derbies was up '..r final
passage after yesterday's debate
over adoption of the majority
report.
The resolution favoring remo
val of the present ban on emer
gency clauses on tax measures
was set for special order of busi
ness Monday. The majority re
port on that measure was adopt
ed yesterday by a vote of 34
to 26.
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